With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street. One of Britain’s first ...

Basil Rathbone, left, starred as Sherlock Holmes in 14 movies, always with Nigel Bruce, right, playing the faithful Dr. Watson.

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson laid down a terrific on-screen template. We celebrate their top films ...

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) was born in Johannesburg, South Africa , to British parents.

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson (image: basilrathbone.net) Sherlock Holmes’s extraordinary talent for deduction has been well documented by Arthur Conan Doyle. Though they ...

Robert Downey Jr. becomes the latest actor to take on the mantle of British detective Sherlock Holmes in a Warner Bros. project, directed by Guy Ritchie.

Released September 1st, 1939, 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' stars Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 25 min, and received a user ...

With his long slender features visible under a deerstalker hat and a smoking pipe in hand, actor Basil Rathbone is as synonymous with Sherlock Holmes as Baker street.